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I disagree. Making people learn to code is the same as making people learn math. It turns people off it. Most people are not interested in it. We often see the world through our own lens. I know many people in my past programming class who simply did not want anything to do with it ever again, and they selected themselves to do it. In fact, that seems to be more common than the people who loved it.

Ah yes, I used the math analogy, but the English analogy is also spot on.

Math is such a wonderful and useful invention. Making people learn mathematics at school has made everyone love mathematics, take it up professionally, and become skilled mathematicians... You see my point. Most people hate math because of their experiences with it in school. I see the same thing happening with coding. It's gonna turn more people away from it than it ever turns onto it. May even do more net damage than good. (Anecdote: in my intro programming class, many people did not like it, even though they self selected to do it.)

Machine translation is so bad that I can't get excited.

Exactly. Thank you. Someone gets it. The only problem is energy. If you have enough energy you can make as much fresh water as you want.

"Deep Blue is stupid, you know, it's a machine." Garry Kasparov before being defeated by Deep Blue.

Calling people who try to enforce the patents they own trolls is a disgrace.

This is going to be hilarious.

Finland, you so silly.